Boater's Bowditch: The Small Craft American Practical Navigator

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McGraw Hill Professional, Jun 20, 2000 - Sports & Recreation - 416 pages

Emphasizing the visual and graphic techniques of navigation, Boater's Bowditch is a small-boat adaptation of the world's most trusted navigation reference, the U.S. government's American Practical Navigator ("Bowditch" for short).

Now in handy paperback with hundreds of new diagrams and photographs, including a 16-page color insert, this book is a pleasure to use. It covers piloting, celestial navigation, marine weather, and all modern methods of electronic navigation, such as GPS and electronic charts. The Boater's Bowditch is an indispensable resource for beginning and advanced navigators, whether in sail- or powerboats, inshore or offshore.

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Contents

Tides
54
Dead Reckoning
64
Piloting
76
Copyright

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Boater's Bowditch: The Small-Craft American Practical Navigator
Richard Hubbard
No preview available - 1997

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aids to navigation air mass Almanac altitude angle atmosphere azimuth bearing Beaufort wind scale buoy called caused celestial body celestial equator celestial navigation celestial sphere circle clouds compass correction course cyclone datum declination depth difference direction distance earth eclipse electronic chart EPIRB error Figure frequency Greenwich harbor height of eye high water horizon hour indicate knots latitude light line of position longitude Loran Loran-C low water magnetic measured meridian Miles Miles Miles minutes moon motion nautical chart nautical miles Notice to Mariners observer ocean orbit planets plot polar pole pressure radar radio waves range reference refraction relative rhumb line sailing satellite scale set and drift sextant ship sight reduction tables signal small craft speed stars station storm surface temperature tidal current tide tion tropical U.S. Coast Guard usually vertical vessel weather wind zone

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About the author (2000)

Richard K. Hubbard navigated everything from large coast guard cutters to class A ocean racing yachts and square-riggers for 11 years. Since 1979 he has worked for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (formerly the Defense Mapping Agency), where today he is a Marine Analyst. He also writes for professional maritime journals and sailing magazines, and remains an active sailor. He was the editor of the 1995 edition of Pub. No. 9, the American Practical Navigator. Boater's Bowditch is the result of a lifetime of sailing, writing, and navigation study.

Bibliographic information

Title Boater's Bowditch: The Small Craft American Practical Navigator
Author Richard Keith Hubbard
Edition illustrated
Publisher McGraw Hill Professional, 2000
ISBN 0071361367, 9780071361361
Length 416 pages
Subjects  ›   › 

Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Boating
Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Sailing
Transportation / Navigation
   
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